Description

A deceptively tricky off-width just right of the clean Bozeman Bullet face.

Climb up, and through the tenuous off-width, clipping 2 bolts. Gain access to the ledge below the steep right-facing corner. Climb this, then head up and right to another steep corner. Use large incut buckets, and surprisingly good feet to gain access to the upper face. Continue to the top and shared anchor with Bozeman Bullet.

Location

The all-too-obvious off-width to the right of Bozeman Bullet.

Protection

There is a fun variation to this route that takes the hand crack through the obvious roof to the right of the ledge 2/3 of the way up. The Lawyer/Haas book has this at 5.9, but for me it felt harder as the described "perfect hand crack" ended up being a weird size for my hands. Bring #1 and #2 C4 size pieces for the roof crack.

My hands are larger, so it took some fiddling to get a jam (sort of a thumb cam?) I felt solid on in the high crux bulge on the main route. ? Harder than 5.8 ? I'd say either you can get a jam with your right hand solid enough to hold you for a moment on the overhang while you grab with your left -- or you cannot. If you cannot, then I guess it's way harder than 5.8 (? or you just stick a cam into the crack higher up and grab its sling ?)

To my understanding....The variation to Geronimo just makes an exposed move right into the right hand crack once above the roof and goes at 5.9. The route Drifter is an R rated(because the face below) route that pulls into that same crack but through the roof from below. This thread is a bit confusing as to which move we are taking about.